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David I

Serve two years as a grunt (11B Baby or alike), no POGs. The gravy train does not get you the price of admission!

William H

Excellent!!

Chris S

First, Term Limits.
But another idea.... One of the things that I love about living in Texas is that our legislature meets for only 140 days, on odd numbered years. When it's like that, there is no such thing as a "professional politician". When those 140 days are over, they have to go home for the next 590 days and LIVE WITH the laws they passed, just like the rest of us do. Not only that, but State legislators in Texas make only $600 per month plus a per diem of $190 for every day the Legislature is in session (also including any special sessions). So they make $33,800 a year for a regular session of 140 days. Over two years, it comes to $41,000. That means that they have to have a regular JOB when they go home. So they have to run their businesses, or whatever they do, in the same climate that they create for the rest of us. No special privileges just because they got elected to serve a 140 day term every other year.

goatman62

There is more fucking logic, and common sense at that table, than in the White House, and all the other branches of government, rolled into one slimy ball. My folks got here from Scotland around 1750, and we fought a Revolution to do away with a "Ruling Class", and made it stick, for a while. Now, 230+ years later, we find ourselves almost, right back where we started.
Like Pogo said during Viet Nam, "we have seen the enemy, and he is us". We have a very similar "Ruling Class". These dilettante Fuckers have been bred just like bird dogs to be nothing but members of the ruling class.
Some "Good Ol Boy, or Gal", just like you and me. Well except for the fact that they can't get out of their own fucking way in real life situations, but with the right degrees from the right schools, and the right financial backing,he's or she's suddenly qualified to send real people out and get them killed, or maimed. The reasons are glorified in lofty rhetoric, but in most cases, the underlying reason has to do with some chickenshit political objective. Some Asshole, whose primary concern is "How do I look on camera? How did I sound? Will my latte be cold when it gets here? But this fucker or fuckess who has never heard a shot fired in anger and knows nothing about combat, military strategy, and even less about governing, keeps being reelected, and finally in his dotage, leaves office a fucking gazillionaire, albeit with the blood of God only knows how many of our kids on their hands. It's a damned shame and a disgrace!